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[child_of_luv]

OUT OF CHARACTER:
Name/Handle: Sailor G
Contact: duches77
Reference: Current player
Other characters: Keith (Voltron: Legendary Defender)

IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Minako Aino
Character journal: child_of_luv
Series name: Sailor Moon
Canon notes: end of season 2 (Sailor Moon R)

Species: Human (Senshi)

History: She's got several wiki pages!
Minako Aino on Sailor Moon Fandom Wiki
Minako Aino (anime) on Sailor Moon Fandom Wiki
Minako Aino on WikiMoon

Sailor V on WikiMoon
Codename: Sailor V on Wikipedia
Codename: Sailor V on Sailor Moon Fandom Wiki

Sailor Venus on Sailor Moon Fandom Wiki
Sailor Venus on Wikipedia
Sailor Venus on WikiMoon

As each version of Sailor Moon is slightly different from the other, I generally tend to follow the DiC English dub of the original anime as that is the one I grew up with and am most familiar with. I do, however, fill in some plotholes from that version with the English translation of the manga from Kodansha that was released from 2011 to 2013, as that's the easiest for me to canon review. I also include backstory from the English translation of the Codename Sailor V manga from Kodansha, as, even in the anime I use, Sailor V is acknowledged as a pre-canon story for Minako.

As the wikis can be a little incomplete or confusing in some situations due to the story variations between mediums and reboots, I'll offer some additional canon information.

To sum up, Minako Aino was a typical middle school girl when she falls on meets a white cat named Artemis. Artemis can talk, and he helps her awaken her powers as Sailor Venus, Sailor Guardian of the Moon Kingdom. Once she believes what's happening to her, she sets out on her mission of finding the Moon Princess and saving the world.

After gaining her Senshi powers, Minako works with the local police to fight crime and find the Moon Princess. After being betrayed by one of her reincarnated generals, Minako decides that she needs to follow her instincts and travel more to fulfill her mission. She travels to England (anime version), but comes back to Japan, where she finally meets up with the rest of the Senshi. Initially, she continues to use the Sailor V guise, but, after the other Senshi begin awakening, she stops using Sailor V and begins using her true Senshi form, Sailor Venus. The timing of her return and revealing herself to the rest of the Senshi makes her the last of the Inner Senshi to join the team after Sailor Moon's reawakening.

Personality: Minako takes her role as Sailor Venus, Guardian of Princess Serenity, and leader of the Inner Senshi very seriously. Even if she is not transformed into her Senshi form, she's never late to Senshi meetings, always offers advice and ideas, and brings forth any information she may have gathered in relation to their current mission. One of the first tasks that has her working together with the rest of the Inner Senshi shows her in human form, very serious, and leading the group to Tokyo Tower to find Sailor Moon and Mamoru. This is actually the first side you see of Minako in the anime.

As part of the team, Minako tends to be the quiet leader. She sees the other girls have their strengths, and they all strive to protect Sailor Moon. This level of protection and commitment to duty increases once they all learn that Sailor Moon is in fact the Moon Princess. Sailor Moon is the open leader, and Sailor Venus takes a second-in-command role, discreetly boosting the rest of the team to shine with their own individual strengths. Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mars, and Sailor Mercury all have specific talents that they contribute to the main effort (strength, vision, intelligence), but it's Sailor Venus and Sailor Moon who hold them together as a team.

Sailor Venus takes the lead when Sailor Moon isn't present. Once Tuxedo Mask and Sailor Chibi Moon are regulars in their fighting force, it isn't uncommon for them to split up and flank an enemy. Sailor Moon would usually go with her future husband and child, while Sailor Venus would lead the rest of the Senshi in a support role. She takes advice from the others, such Mercury's analysis of a situation, or Mars' view of someone's aura and power, or Jupiter's ideas on how best to fight, and puts them together into a plan of action. She knows her teammates strengths and, as a good leader, encourages them to use them to their fullest to help the goal of the team.

Minako, when not doing Sailor Senshi things, can be ditzy and love-struck. She's a little boy crazy, kind of lazy, and hates doing chores and homework. She loves video games and sports, and wants desperately to be an idol someday. To this end, she's also picked up various performing talents like dancing, singing, and modeling, and she has a wicked serve in volleyball. She can sometimes be almost as flakey as Usagi, and a bit clumsy, too, but she always has her friends' interests and well-being foremost in her mind. When Mamoru was kidnapped by the Dark Kingdom and turned against the Senshi, it was Minako who tried to cheer Usagi up by taking her out for a makeover at a hair salon. She also likes to use cliché phrases at what she feels are appropriate moments, but tends to get the words mixed up. This could be attributed to her time traveling to find the other Senshi and spending time away from Japan speaking other languages (especially when she works with the police force in England). There could be something lost in the translations in her mind, and she just doesn't get it right.

Minako is very torn over her desire to have fun, be lazy, and find her one true love as a normal teenager versus her sense of duty to the Moon Kingdom. When she first learns of her fate in Codename: Sailor V, she doesn't even seem to take it seriously. She sees it as a stepping stone to becoming an idol, signing autographs and basking in the attention of her fans. But after her first major battle and the heartbreak that accompanied it, everything changes for her. She decides to put off her life and dedicate herself to being a Senshi, but often finds herself thinking about how things could have been different and how much she's missing out on. Several times, Minako finds herself in a crisis, caught between two worlds, that of an every day school girl, and that of a Sailor Senshi. While she manages to work with the police in many of her crime fighting exploits, she has her heart broken a second time while abroad, involving her police partner, and this causes her to leave the police force completely. She never goes back to doing her Senshi duties as a police consultant, and even has some issues surrounding police work and police officers as a result. Her conflicted feelings and broken-hearted past remain issues for her for a good portion of the storyline in all versions of the canon-verse.

Abilities:
She has quite a few listed here under the attacks tab. She has more as Sailor V, but, once she drops the Sailor V guise and takes on being Sailor Venus full-time, she no longer uses her Sailor V attacks.

The ones she can access at the end of the Infinity arc are:
- Crescent Beam - a beam of light she can shoot from her finger. This is the only attack you see her use without the full attack sequence, and she's also the only Senshi shown being able to access any of her attacks without the full attack sequence.
- Crescent Beam Shower - similar to Crescent Beam, but the beam of light splits mid-arc and can hit multiple targets.
- Venus Love-Me Chain - a magical chain of heart-shaped links Venus can use as a whip or lasso, and can also use for various helpful tasks outside of battle, such as for climbing or grappling. She once uses this to prevent herself and Sailor Pluto from falling off a cliff. In some versions, it's a physical weapon that she wears like a belt around her waist when in Senshi form, but I won't be using the chain belt here.

Obviously, most of these would be nerfed for in-game play. Many Senshi attacks are highly destructive in canon, but we obviously can't have them blasting holes in the sides of the ships! In general, I don't see Minako making much use of her powers overall in the game to begin with, but, should she use them, their destructive ability would be taken down quite a bit as not to be game-breakers. Additionally, any combined attacks would only be accessible if the other Senshi app in, and the "teleport" ability that all five Inner Senshi use would be restricted to between ships, and between the ship and any planet/station they're near. (I'm open to additional restrictions if desired.)

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